The era of open data in public transportation has just begun.
Civic technologists joined transit planning experts and advocates on March 5 for the first NYC Bus Data Hackathon, convened by...
Why can’t our transit operators catch up to where the rest of the world was a generation ago?
Read MoreStreetcars deserve strict scrutiny. Over a dozen such projects have been launched in U.S. cities since the 1990s, and nearly all have failed to fulfill promises of high usage and efficient travel speed.
Read MoreTransitCenter was reborn as a civic philanthropy in mid-2013, amid one of the most transformative moments in transportation. The first...
Read MoreNew York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal has garnered many epithets: “The Single Worst Place on Planet Earth,” “If Hell Had...
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In our recent post highlighting a few of the important opportunities created by the MTA’s open data program, we promised...
In a new analysis titled Uber-Positive, Jared Meyer of the Manhattan Institute concludes that “The Ride-Share Firm Expands Transportation Options in Low-Income...
Every thirty seconds a stream of GPS data is broadcasted from thousands of local buses operating in New York City, making...